Improvement in targets and target-stands



4 W. H. WRIGHT 80 G. L. THORNE.

Target and Target-Stand.

Patented May 6, 1879.

I @RV m M// I Inventors Witnesses:

UNITED S TATE S WILLIAM H. WRIGHT,

PATENT QFFIGE.

OF ROGHESTEIEAND GEORGE L. THORNE, OF

BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN TARGE TS AND TARGET-STANDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 215,033, dated May 6,1879 application filed March 7, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM H, WRIGHT, of Rochester, New York, andGEORGE L. THORNE, of Bufialo. New York, have jointly invented certainnew and useful Improvements on Archery Targets and Stands; and we dohereby declare that the following description of our said invention,taken in connection with the accompanying sheet of drawings, forms afull, clear, and exact specification, which will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has general reference to archery-stands; and it consistsin the peculiar arrangement of parts and details of construction, ashereinafter first fully set forth and described, and then pointed out inthe claims.

In the drawings hereinbefore mentioned, which serve to illustrate oursaid invention more fully, Figure l is a front elevation of our improvedstand and target. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation, and Fig. 3 a transversesection in line X X of Fig. 1.

Like parts are designated by corresponding letters of reference in allthe figures.

The object of our present invention is the production of an archerytarget and stand that shall be simple and durable in construction andreadily carried about, and for this latter purpose shall occupy aslittle space as is consistent with the nature of this implement ofsport.

To attain these ends we construct the targetstand of a head or topplate, A, made of cast metal, and provided centrally with anupwardly-projectin g point, B, and on both extremities with shields 0,said plate serving as a medium of attachment of the stand or legs G inthe following manner: In the shields O are provided apertures for thepassage of nutted bolts 9, said bolts passing through the legs G G. Onthe back of the shield we furthermore provide a projecting lug, D,having an aperture for the reception of the bolt F, passing through theupper end of the middle leg, G, and these bolts by their nuts (thumb-nuts, if desired) serve as a means to retain the legs in anyconvenient position. The axis of these bolts run in different planes, sothat while the legs G G" are capable of moving sidewise on their lowerextremities, the middle leg, G, can be moved rearward or forward only,thus furnishing an inexpensive but very convenient tripod.

To enable the stand to be readily packed for shipment or carried aboutfor field sport, we prefer to make the legs G G G in pieces, and jointthem in taper sockets H, or in any other convenient manner, by means oftaper tenons h h.

By this manner of construction the lower part of the legs can bereadilydetached from the upper parts, and then placed alongside of thelatter, where there is room enough between the points of attachment ofsaid upper parts to admit the lower parts between them, and thus packinto a convenient bundle.

The point B serves as a means of suspending the target by a loop, N.This target consists, preferably, of bass wood shavings, formed, first,into a rope, and then wound spirally into an annular disk, J, afterwhich a covering of cotton or other cloth, K, is fixed over the disk J,and then a further covering of coarse cloth, L, sewed over thetarget-body, along the extreme edge, after which we secure the wholepermanently together by sewing through the entire target, commencing inthe center, and proceed ingspirally to the circumference, as shown at I,Fig. 1, whereby each turn of the spiral packing J is securely fixed inposition, and thereby producing a.target of superior stiffness andcapability of resisting the penetrating force of the arrow, without,however, interfering with the arrow remaining in the target whenproperly shot. We then apply the target proper, I, in the usual manner,by sewing it along its circumference to the target-body L. This targetproper we make generally of oil-cloth, which is readily applied, andoffers sufficient resistance to the arrow-points to prevent them frompassing through the entire target.

We find bass-wood shavings to be more elastic and of better resistingqualities than other shavings, straw, &c., and shall therefore use itextensively; but we do not wish to con fine ourselves exclusively tosaid material. So

may the stuffing of the target-body be accom plished in the usual mannerwithout first re sorting to the production of rope from the materialemployed, and winding this rope spirally into an annular disk; but weshall in all cases sew the same spirally, as described, which we find tobe far superior to any other method of sewing the target-body.

As a further modification of our method of bisecting the target-stand,the sectional legs (1: may be hinged together and a ferrule slide overthe joint; or any other convenient method may be adopted to produce aknock-down stand.

Having thus fully described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1. In a target-stand, the head-piece A, havingthe point B, the shield C, and the lug D produced entire, as and for theobject specified.

2. A separable target-stand composed of the head-piece A, having thepoint B, shields O, and lug D, and the legs G G G", pivoted to thehead-piece, and composed of sections, fixed as described, for the useand purpose specified.

3. A target-stand composed of the headpiece A, having the point B,shields G, and lug D, and the legs G, pivoted to the head- GEO. L.THORNE. L. s.

, Attest:

1 MICHAEL J. STARK,

J. A. McINTosH.

piece by the bolts g. passing through the shields W. H. WRIGHT. ,L. S1

